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A Giant Award for Lincecum

11. November 2008  - Published by Chris Murdico
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The National League Cy Young award was announced today and the winner is Tim Lincecum of the San Francisco Giants. He becomes the second Giant to win the award, joining Mike McCormick who took home the award in 1967.

Lincecum received 23 of the 32 possible votes with the remaining nine being split amongst three players. Arizona Diamondbacks' Brandon Webb and New York Mets' Johan Santana each received four. Newcomer to the NL this season, CC Sabathia of the Milwaukee Brewers received the other first place vote.

The Cy Young award in the NL could have gone to any of these four that received first place votes. Lincecum, in just his second season in the majors, impressed the voters by putting together a great season on a really bad team. His presence on the mound doesn't strike fear into a hitter considering he's just 5-foot-11 and 160 pounds or so. Its his unsuspecting 97 mph fastball that catches hitters off guard as it blows right by them.

Lincecum was 18-5 and had the third best ERA in the NL at 2.62. He led the majors with 265 strikeouts and finished the season with the best winning percentage in the NL (.783). He was able to do all this while playing for an awful Giants team that finished fourth in the NL West with a record of 72-90. That likely played out as a key factor in him winning the most prestigious award for pitchers in each league.

The schedule for the remaining awards to be announced is below. 

NL/AL Managers of the Year - Wednesday, November 12th
AL Cy Young - Thursday, November 13th
NL Most Valuable Player - Monday, November 17th
AL Most Valuable Player - Tuesday, November 18th

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Dan Clasgens
Dan Clasgens
11/11/2008 8:57:58 PM #
C.C Sabathia got screwed man! This guy was lights out and carried the Brewers to the playoffs. Lincecum was deserving of the award, but the fact Sabathia finished fifth is ridiculous. Why should the player get penalized for get trading to a different league...this whole separate league crap is another blog post all by itself.
Jimmy Dinsmore
Jimmy Dinsmore
11/12/2008 12:03:36 PM #
nobody has mentioned that Lincecum should've been a Red. They took OF Drew Stubbs instead of Lincecum in that draft. Well done. Just another outfielder or a ridiculously talented starting pitcher with ML-stuff. I think the knock on him, if I recall, was his build was too small to sustain a long career. Whatever.
Pete M might be able to correct anything I'm mistaken on. And, I think this was a Krivsky mistake too.
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